If I had a Time Machine . . If I had a time machine, I would go to this moment of 2019. No I wouldn't bother me with the details of covid-19, but I might just hint her to the possibility of the then-impossibility. I would mostly try to show her the consequences that I am going through because 2019-me decided to celebrate her pity party a bit too long. I would tell her how it feels to wear procrastination for skin, to have my blood course through it and that it's the beginning of my sin. How fleeing from confrontations will become a habit, a habit I would eventually have to work my life off to curb it. The habit of my brain going periodically numb and my heart beating twice as hard like some offbeat drum I would plead to her to not make it into one, because repeated breakdowns are genuinely no fun. If I had a time machine I'd be reluctant to go to the future. Not because of the pandemic, I'd like to believe I'd get through it. It's more likely that I'd disappoint myself, like I have disappointed my past self. If the future me was staring back at me giving me all these advices so I don't turn my life into a tragedy, I'd think I'm tripping. It's even likely that I wouldn't take myself seriously and think she is just someone who eerily looks like me. Or maybe I don't make it, which is fine, but do I really need to know now? If I had a time machine, I would come to this present. I'd slap the living hell out if myself and tell her that I'm sent from the future me to teach myself how to be content To make use of the only time we have any control of, so I don't resent myself and end up moping and crying for wasting time and repent. I'd remind me of what it means to take action and not just bury myself in words and fiction. Words can change the world when accompanied with action, I know that, but now is the only time when I can actually get it into my system. If I had a time machine, I would live in my present and live it to the fullest and with no regrets. . . #scrapsfromthejournal #quarantinewriting #captainscarface (at Belmont, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3h6uWFHVF/?igshid=1p5y023qfxtov